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UN Agency Seeks Broad State Efforts to Protect Forests
July 30, 2018
A recent report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization calls on national governments to adopt a comprehensive approach to restrain industries from engaging in deforestation and to maintain “healthy and productive forests” as part of global efforts to fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Sovereign Funds Push Companies to Consider Climate Risks
July 30, 2018
A group of six sovereign wealth funds, organized under an initiative established at the recent One Planet Summit in Paris, has announced that they will only invest in companies that consider risks related to climate change in their long-term strategies and account for the need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to fulfill the UN’s Paris climate deal.
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Cement Group Prioritizes Fulfillment of Climate Agenda
July 30, 2018
The World Cement Association recently hosted a Global Climate Change Forum at which it urged industry members to ramp up their investments in new technologies to reduce their climate impacts and has announced plans to develop a “climate change action plan” for the industry.
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Initiative Seeks Investor Support for Fossil Fuel Divestment
July 30, 2018
According to the UN-supported initiative Climate Action 100+, the growing number of investor signatories to the initiative, aimed at placing pressure on “systemically important greenhouse gas emitters” to reduce their climate impacts, demonstrates the budding commitment by the financial industry to help fulfill the UN’s Paris climate deal.
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UN Agency Calls for End to Export of “Dirty Fuels” to Africa
July 30, 2018
The UN Environment agency has pointed to a report prepared by the Dutch government on the transportation of “dirty fuels” to Western Africa as proof of “an environmental and public health scandal,” arguing that the energy industry must not sell fuels that would be banned in Europe “even if they meet national standards” in African countries.
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